by Linda Bergquist | Apr 17, 2013 | Church Planting
While this post may be useful for individual church planters, it is really intended for either churches that are considering planting new churches or for people who are responsible for making decisions about starting multiple churches in a region. It is written from a...
by Phil Spry | Jun 19, 2012 | Church Planting
We church planters are an opportunistic lot… So much so that many growing communities are overrun with new churches. Paul notes the same condition in Romans 15:23. The area had been evangelized and it was time to move on. Because of what I do I am often called by...
by Linda Bergquist | Mar 17, 2012 | Church Planting
I am self-professed demographic geek. By seventh grade I was already analyzing and interpreting people groups and communities. Nothing like winding down the evening with a few good info-graphics, right? Laugh away — My sociology training left me with an orientation...
by Linda Bergquist | Nov 17, 2011 | Church Leadership, Church Planting, Outreach and Evangelism
The church world “is often motivated by a culture of success. We recruit, fund, celebrate, propagate and evaluate based on predictable, measureable success rates.” I wrote these words in my October blog post “Out Of The Algorithm, Into The Mystery!”. Our...
by Bob Logan | Aug 4, 2011 | Church Planting, Outreach and Evangelism
When we began planting our church a few years ago, we were listening in prayer for what God wants us to do. What we heard God pressing upon us was to minister to the down and out, the poor in spirit, the people who couldn’t pay us back. We were called to be the hands...
